Kepler in a Nutshell—what the Kepler mission is about, in simple terms.

The diagram below shows the main Kepler mission Education and Public Outreach (EPO) projects. It is an interactive diagram:
click on a project name to find out more about it.

Check for Teacher Workshops in your area or online.

Here are the items from the above diagram, but in list form:

• Information
• Models & Simulations
• Media (animations, graphics, sound, movies)
• Classroom Activities

Interactive features:

How Kepler discovers planets (elementary)

How Kepler discovers planets (advanced)

Planet Families Build-a-Solar System

Kepler and the International Year of Astronomy (IYA - 2009)

Transitsearch.org helps amateur astronomers to properly configure telescopes for reliably detecting exoplanet transits.

Kepler Speakers Bureau—
...to request a speaker from the Kepler team for an event you are planning.

Kepler Powerpoint Files
(Useful in public presentations)

Educator's Links and Other Interactive Planet Detection Activities

• Astro-Venture
  An educational, interactive, multimedia Web environment where students in grades 5-8 role-play NASA occupations, as they search for and build a planet with the necessary characteristics for human habitation.
• Celestia—an open source, real time and space simulation. Tour the solar system. As open source - objects can be added. Extrasolar systems could be added. Time element can be speeded up to observe planetary orbits, moons' orbits.
• Kepler's Discovery website (http://www.keplersdiscovery.com) is an educational adventure into the concepts, thought processes and consequences of Kepler's discoveries. It provides an excellent supplement to secondary school and college classes on astronomy, mathematics and the history of science.

The staff of the Kepler Education and Public Outreach program wish to gratefully recognize and acknowledge the contributions of the astronomy department at Western Kentucky University for their efforts in planning KeplerNet, even though that projectultimately could not be pursued due to budget constraints.

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